From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-07-17T10:32:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Negative Sleep (#87)

Mitchell Koch wrote:
> * Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> [060714 07:49]:
> 
>>You could also view a sleep as specifying the relationship between
>>the computations on either side of it.  In that case, sleep(1) might
>>request that the second computation begin at least a second after
>>the completion of the first one.  Negative sleeps would simply
>>reverse the order of the two computations, sleep(-1) meaning that
>>the first computation should begin at least a second after the
>>completion of the second.
> 
> 
> Alright, I basically took that definition of negative sleep, although
> I had to decide what should happen when there are three or more
> statements separated by negative sleeps and what should happen if a
> negative sleep is before after everything else.  I decided both
> arbitrarily.
> 
> I decided to implement it as a class that takes procs and runs them in
> the right order, which I think came out pretty cleanly.

[snip]

This has to be the most useless Ruby Quiz I've ever seen.

I like it a lot.


Hal